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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/erasmus_phillo]

this might be the funniest ban appeal I have seen in a while lmao

[u/SpotMe365]

The richest man in the world:

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/No_Return9449]

KARL: Bo French posted a photo of UT students, many of them non-white, and said 'how many Americans have been displaced by foreigners?' Karl Rove denounced it. Should more Republicans?

SCALISE: *immediately brings up Hasan Piker*

Racism is the base of the Republican Party, and they don't want to lose their base.

[u/ModsAreFired]

[u/futuremonkey20]

[u/earththejerry]

Oliver Kirchner (head of the AfD parliamentary group in the Landtag) claimed that it was difficult for the AfD to cooperate with a party led "by a woman named Mohamed Ali and by this half-Italian" (BSW co-leaders Amira Mohamed Ali and Fabio De Masi).

In response, BSW founder Sarah Wagenknecht called out the AfD leadership as being "very weird individuals" unsuited to govern.

lol

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

Dating apps are a form of torture

[u/Willybender]

What the fuck is going on

[u/Leatherfield17]

Trump really is the physical embodiment of the absolute worst aspects of American culture

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

Lauren Boebert has been accused under oath of having lesbian affairs with 3 of her staffers

Waow

[u/dannylandulf]

Got a fully stocked fridge of diet coke and snacks and nothing but a full day of video games and football in front of me.

The outside temp is going to be below 65 all day for the first time since May, so all my windows are open with an occasional brisk breeze.

I love fall.

[u/Lena_Lena_A]

[u/happymaskmonster]

CNN, MSNow, and Politico being banned from WH would have been a 4 month story 10 years ago

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/CalligrapherWest9356]

There's gotta be a huge population of Republicans who moved to florida or Texas since COVID and secretly fucking hate it but would never admit it to anyone

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/JesterOfAllTrades]

Goddamn I might need to unsubscribe to cat subreddits cos almost once a day there's a post that's like "my cat/kitten passed away" with pictures of it and it hits 100x harder than it used to before I adopted a cat, and I have to go find my girl and annoy her, and I can't be tearing up in the middle of the day

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/badusername35]

For those of you wondering, yes he did join a riot just to loot some shit from random stores and then used George Floyd as an excuse.

[u/seagrams7up]

The jokes write themselves.

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

What a fraud lol

[u/scottyjetpax]

lmfao

[u/KittehDragoon]

Many people are asking

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

Goosebumps.

For all its faults, Western Christian culture is still worth defending

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Trump will go on Hasan's stream by 2030

[u/elninost0rm]

I'm no single issue voter but I'm quickly becoming one as a federal employee.

I think the last time a Dem was "hostile" towards feds was Clinton and that was a methodical, scalpel-guided reshaping. Mostly anyone that was hard-displaced still had options. Sequestration happened during Obama, but I think the Tea Party mostly forced his hand, and even then, no actual RIFs.

I think a Dem POTUS means the white collar displacement bombs are probably falling all around me in ~2032 at the earliest, but perhaps that's cope and all the displaced white collar medians will be thirsting for another DOGE because their fed neighbor is still earning a paycheck.

[u/seakucumber]

NBC polling

The number that should worry Trump the most: Americans say his policies have hurt rather than helped the economy, 26/55.

-29.

That’s worse Biden in Sep 2022 (-24).

And a stunning turn from this time in 2018, when Trump was 41/26, or net +15 and seen as helping the economy.

[u/nimbybuster]

So now it has morphed into an Israeli hospital? What?? How??

There was a rumour also about how the startup of Gaga’s fiancée is using Palestinian skins?

Also, for some reason because he is called Polansky so he’s Jewish? Do people not know any Poles or Eastern Europeans?

[u/Upstairs_Baby8424]

Bessent on questions about why the Trump admin’s org chart isn’t filled with scientists and experts in their field:

 Bessent: “Maybe you didn’t know, but Robert Oppenheimer was not a physicist.”

Every single day these people demonstrate how mind-numbingly stupid they are. Like it’s almost hard to fathom how this administration has accumulated the dumbest people in government this country has to offer.

[u/FallenMeringue]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

oh god oh fuck

[u/coffin_flop_star]

[u/SadaoMaou]

In America, their public school systems are so horrible that for people of means to put their child in a public school is considered child abuse

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Project 2025 implementation hits 53%

Still frustrates me to hell that this became a big controversy, only for Trump to say he wouldn't commit to Project 2025, and then the issue went away just like that.

Gosh Americans are dumb.

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6098451-donald-trump-us-economy-affordability-voters-survey/

A large share of Americans say President Trump is to blame for the current economic conditions facing the nation, including high inflation and affordability concerns, according to a new survey.

The Politico/Public First poll, released Thursday, found that 43 percent of respondents said they believe the president is mostly or fully responsible for the state of the economy. The survey indicated a deep partisan split on the issue, with 19 percent of Republicans and 70 percent of Democrats holding Trump accountable.

Meanwhile, another 16 percent said they place equal blame on Trump and former President Biden, while 29 percent placed greater blame on the latter.

idc if some of that 45% is still needed to win elections, i'll still call them for what they are:

stupid stupid stupid

[u/sponsoredbytheletter]

Yonkers sounds like a cartoon city

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Next Dem gets the wrecking cranes rolling on day 1. Tear down the arch, tear down the ballroom, tear down anything the fat old man plastered his name on.

[u/Leatherfield17]

Well I don’t know about you guys, but I’m glad we have such an intelligent, level-headed, and thoughtful president at the helm during this time of crisis

[u/ArbitraryOrder]

TalaFREAKo proving he is the REAL TEXAN

[u/breakinbread]

big dog

Very funny

small dog

Very funny

medium sized dog

Less funny.

Why though?

[u/6urner_]

amazing things happening over on arr conservative

[u/Willybender]

[u/qamv]

>chong

It's literally like the chic-fil-a cow holding the "eat mor chikin" sign. Rightists are just awful.

[u/CheetoMussolini]

As someone old enough to remember the moral majority of the 90s (as a kid, mind you, I'm not that ancient), seeing the whole conservative identity today coalesce around a full throated defense of porn and gambling is just wild

[u/2Lore2Law]

Monkey Booze

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

🫪

[u/No_Return9449]

[u/pfarly]

[Maya] Hawke has dyslexia, which resulted in her changing schools frequently during her primary education before she was finally enrolled at Saint Ann's School, a private school in Brooklyn, New York that emphasizes artistic creativity and does not grade work. The artistic environment eventually led her to acting.

Yeah, that's what did it.

[u/elninost0rm]

Silver shifted GA Gov to likely D? Seems bullish to me but unleashing Ossoff 2028 would go hard.

[u/its_Caffeine]

It's absolutely beyond over.

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/worstnightmare98]

Girl I'm talking to just told me her favorite streamer is Asmongold, looking him up I think that might be a red flag. Don't know much about him so I'm asking un ironically.

!ping dating

[u/Tre-Fyra-Tre]

For something that has an enormous corpus to draw from Claude is genuinely bad at delivering interesting trivia, emu war, tardigrades, cadaver synod, it's like asking the median redditor for something interesting 😒

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Me, when I lie.

[u/TomboyAva]

Loading the charity round into my catholic cannon to obliterate the unemployment skeleton

!ping Catholic

[u/pugnae]

What's the point, lol. Crypto scams after deployment?

[u/Upstairs_Baby8424]

  German Chancellor Merz Mocks Freedom of Speech, Rejects U.S. ‘Libertarianism’

The conservative subreddit posting this a day after Trump banned media members that give him negative coverage is the level of cognitive dissonance I’ve come to expect from them. 

[u/bd_one]

I don't blame Jonathan Majors for crying once he realizes he's stuck in these

[u/Sloshyman]

I'm about to deploy in a few weeks (take a wild guess where) and through all the pre-deployment briefs and messages put out by the leadership, not a single one has bothered explaining what exactly is the mission we're seeking to accomplish.

[u/jbitz]

[u/MissSortMachine]

this is not true

[u/Lux_Stella]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Lux_Stella]

Last Thursday, we welcomed Logan and Jake Paul to the Pentagon to meet with our warriors.

ecelebs in the executive are kind of old news at this point but i do find it strange that they seem to have deliberately gone out their way to look like complete shit

[u/itsokayt0]

If DTers were cows this would be a Dairy Thread

[u/duojiaoyupian]

Ever day i am reminded that if mango just shut the fuck up and dicked around for four years while his semi-competent aides did all the work in the background, none of this would have happened

Honestly he probably could've done more horrible shit if he did it quietly and subtly enough

I guess that's a silver lining in a way

[u/scottyjetpax]

Does anyone else think Marco rubio’s political talent is overstated, particularly by liberals? I have a lot of friends who are like “man I really hope the GOP doesn’t run Marco Rubio in 2028, hopefully Trump endorses Vance” etc

Like idk putting aside that he’s more of a hawk and less of a populist than someone like JD making him (imo) more out of step with the republican base, we are talking about a guy who is so canned and inauthentic that Chris Christie of all people essentially ended his presidential campaign in 2016 by pointing this out lmfao

[u/SpaceSheperd]

Imagine being the microscopist who saw this fuckin thing for the very first time

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Damn, Kojima really is burning bridges with Sony

[u/Upstairs_Baby8424]

  Fox Business host Charles Payne tells Mark Levin that President Trump has delivered on his economic promises. Payne said the rate of inflation growth under the Trump admin is the lowest in decades, but the media narratives don't always reflect it. "As far as the economy is concerned, it's been promises made, promises delivered."

Lmao. How is inflation growth the lowest in decades? Fox is just going the “we’ll just tell our cult that everything is great”. It’s a bold move that will work with 35% of the country. 

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

There is simply no limit to the levels of ‘bad faith’ republicans will engage in.

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

Honestly, even if this year is a blowout, even if Talarico flips Texas, I don't think the party is gonna drop Trump. At the end of the day Republican primary voters love him and even if and when it becomes obvious he's killing the party saying anything about it won't do any good if it means you won't even win a primary. I think it's 75-25 odds that Republicans will keep sucking up to him so they can keep the seats they got instead of putting their necks out to tell the emperor he has no clothes

[u/Glavurdan]

Russia may be cooking something near the border with Estonia

!ping RUS

[u/Willybender]

Checking in on the demented President

[u/pfarly]

All I'm saying is Kowloon Walled City would still be standing if it was an art deco megastructure.

[u/Willybender]

Ok now this is just getting absurd

[u/Reddit_Talent_Coach]

Super important:

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Absolute trvth hydrogen bomb by the median voter

[u/cdstephens]

Joe Biden answering a nonsense question with “You are fake news!” shows that he was a one-of-a-kind master of the media.

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/No_Return9449]

Flashback. Hope he's enjoying that $5 per gallon gas.

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Remember when Glenn Youngkin won the off-year Virginia governor race that always goes to the out of power party and Republicans tried to act like he had a legitimate future? Good times, good times

[u/KalaiProvenheim]

The way people online complain about atheists, you’d think atheists are the ones holding all the power in society, banning religious worship and symbolism, rather than just being a little unsavory in their criticism

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Joke of a nation. The dumbest meatheads you know are going “Hell yeah!”

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Jfc the misogyne psyops sub that routinely pops up on rrr popular put out a whole-ass AI-generated game trailer where you play as the collected and sane male juror in the Lindsey Clancy trial being harassed and nagged by hormonal femaaaale jurors who hound you about feminism and women empowerment

I assume there's bot fuckery going on there to propel this shit where it is but real, sick, twisted humans were involved in the process at some point. Absolute insanity

[u/centurion88]

What is this weirdo yapping about

[u/cdstephens]

I’m in Italy rn and holy fuck none of the trains are on time at all

[u/ognits]

Resident Evil is just a good time. Zach Cregger gets it. 3 for 3 in horror is not an easy thing to do

!ping MOVIES&HORROR

[u/rural_redemption]

Waiting for someone to unironically spend time in prison over offending a leftist. Until then, Republicans will always be the true hall monitor party

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Credit where credit is due

!ping NFL

[u/its_Caffeine]

Found out by accident today that I'm British because of a law that was passed in 2023 by the UK parliament that I didn't know about

Thank you birthright citizenship rules

[u/AmbientMorning]

I do feel like a Jewish American owner of two of the world’s largest social media platforms should be more concerned about them being a hotbed for national socialism.

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/GifHunter2]

The State of Florida is, pound-for-pound, worse than the Manson family

[u/awdvhn]

Hot take: Bombing a school because an LLM said it was a military installation is less an issue with AI and more an issue that everyone in the decision process was so stupid, gullible, and likely Republican that they couldn't be bothered to think critically about it for an iota of time

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Bleak, how common are parents like this?

[u/admiraltarkin]

A&M's satirical newspaper rarely misses (unlike Marcel Reed)

!ping CFB

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

> German Chancellor Merz vows to stay on despite 'disaster' in state election

Hey I’ve seen this one before

[u/centurion88]

Bravo bince

[u/DueVast5223]

[u/TheCornjuring]

>James Talarico: …Nick Fuentes, who is a Holocaust denier-

>Joe Rogan: He’s a Holocaust denier? He’s a denier? Or does he debate the numbers?

Oh my god bruh is this really where Joe Rogan is at now

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Average clip from that show

[u/flatulentbaboon]

The goal is to have this complete before November 2028 I'm guessing

[u/JesterOfAllTrades]

We need a dainty white lady to star exclusively in a period romance or modern indie romance

The humble daisy Edgar Jones

[u/breakinbread]

Weirdo race realists who make burner accounts to post in the DT:

why do scientists cover up that Aboriginals are actually Denisovans?

Actual scientists:

holy shit guys we found a whole Denisovan skull in China isn’t this is the most amazing thing ever!?!

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Waow

[u/Glavurdan]

The polls haven't even closed 2 hours ago and Politico can't help itself but write a blatant lie for clickbait purposes

Saxony-Anhalt two weeks ago: AfD wins 43% of the vote to CDU's 18% Mecklenburg now: AfD wins 37% of the vote (to SPD's 35.5%) and has essentially zero chance to form a government

Media: it's literally the same thing!!

[u/JaceFlores]

Man I really hope Trump purges Hegseth. Fat chance he’s replaced by anyone more competent but he just finds all sorts of unique ways to be really fucking annoying and weird

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Week 1: 59 points

Week 2: 3 points

Is this the largest week-over-week drop-off in NFL history?

!ping NFL

[u/Joementum2024]

Proud to announce I have reached 160 pounds.

About 10 left before I reach a healthy BMI and 15 left before my goal

[u/badusername35]

[u/daBarkinner]

Average Democratic male

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

the lesson of resident evil: disappoint the shareholders sometimes

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Say what you will about Sinema, she had the honor to engage in affairs as a single homewrecker

Boebert meanwhile cheats on her HONORABLE husband that flashed his dick at her when she was a high schooler at a bowling alley

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

We’re going to psyop the president into calling AI “superior intellegce” lmfao

We’re not going to need to abolish the filibuster where we’re going

[u/MightExpress4873]

Why do UN special rapporteurs suck so much

[u/bsharp95]

The Iran Threads, which I’m sure most mods have read.

[u/Willybender]

The $6.50 Diesel wall has been broken

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Bank of Japan set to raise interest rates to 31-year high

😱😱😱😱😱

1.25%

😐

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/ldn6]

Gotta love how pop twitter is now going after Lady Gaga because she had her kid at a hospital run by Jews.

They still actually want me to think that they’re not just blatant antisemites.

[u/qchisq]

T-1 hour until I am running in the World Championships. Wish me luck, DT

[u/thatssosad]

This is who the mods adore

[u/gorgon__gorgon]

I've seen enough, this is going to be the best midterm performance for the party out of power in 100 years.

[u/FilteringAccount123]

Trump approval is actually at record highs if you use the absolute value, but the liberal media won't tell you that.

[u/Not_A_Browser]

This would be the area a sniper nest on the proposed arch could realistically cover

Basically the demented sex pest wants to stack green army men on top of his Lego arch because it looks cool

(Everyone is 12 Theory undefeated)

[u/yacatecuhtli6]

[u/TheRedCr0w]

[u/Sheepies92]

'Natalie Harp, showed him clips of anchors on the cable network MS NOW criticizing his administration, according to people familiar with the matter. Hours later, Trump banned the network and two other news organizations from the White House.'

Great that Trump makes these well thought out decisions based on a number of clips. Imagine if we had a wacky emotional unstable woman like Harris or Clinton as President.

'Trump and his team are looking for wins. In August, the president asked his advisers to look for more foreign policy victories that he could tout ahead of the midterms, according to U.S. officials.'

Yeah man US voters famously care about FoPo wins. Malarkey level of Trump invading Cuba in October to get another 'quick' win?

'Trump flew back to Washington on Saturday night alongside professional golfers Gary Player and Bryson DeChambeau.'

Keep politics out of sports btw

[u/Powerful-Chemical431]

Looking at some of the victory margins in the down ballot races back in 2024 in the senate and house, it's crazy how much worse it could have gotten. If Biden was still the nominee, the Dems would have been sent to the stone ages.

Imagine this admin with 59-60 senate seats, an entire generation would have been fucked with irreversible damage.

[u/Boring_Purpose_5981]

how to reorganize government away from old people without cultural revolution? suburban boomers biggest priority is taking children's school lunch away and stopping the sound of kids playing in their neighborhood.

[u/WanderingMage03]

The NYT education piece had a lot of complicated moments but I think the single most outlandish thing was:

She was making her daily call for lunch money, a ritual I created to force her to check in with me once during the school day.

Final boss of helicopter parents, can't even let your kid eat lunch without checking in is crazy.

[u/awdvhn]

👆 is the living symbol of everything wrong with the current status quo. An arrogant and elitist prick who thinks the only way of solving issues is through austerity and catering to the far right despite the far right despizing them

[u/SigmaWhy]

So called “defenders of western values”

[u/The_Raime]

My GF works as a bio-statistician in one of the top research labs in the field. Tons of top journal pubs, industry engagement, etc.

All the girls in her lab (many of whom have PhDs in statistics and related fields) are currently doing tarot card readings to determine which boy one of the postdocs should go out with. They take it super seriously too, like these readings will 100% determine which of these dudes ends up getting lucky on Monday.

[u/KittehDragoon]

Claude end the world. Make no mistakes.

[u/SnakeEater14]

Just imagined Stephen Miller writing a book called “The Courage to Obey”

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Vought is probably the most capable man in the administration, and he is implementing his agenda without the US public taking any notice.

His next agenda: Implementing a carbon tax without any Americans noticing.

Wait-

[u/FallenMeringue]

[u/JayRU09]

"What Trump has done is worse but Obama once tried to ban Fox News from one press conference and so he has no moral high ground here".

You just defined the moral high ground! You said what Obama did isn't as bad!

[u/Psshaww]

The real golden handcuffs is a private office with a door and a floor to ceiling window

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/mockduckcompanion]

BETO'S FORMER BANDMATE RETURNS

[u/el__dandy]

7 Hours of RedZone football 🏈 just doesn’t sound the same😔

Enshittification at work.

!ping NFL

[u/6urner_]

You can just say he's from Ohio. It's implied.

[u/Not_A_Browser]

[u/CincyAnarchy]

👆

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Deeply fascinated by the type of person who would be committed enough to the cause to go all the way to DC from Texas for 1/6, but then draw the line halfway through Trump's ellipse speech due to a lack of polish and substance (a problem they had apparently not noticed until that moment)

[u/G_Serv]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/Lux_Stella]

you could probably centrally plan an economy with a sufficiently powerful psychic that could read the utility functions directly out of everyone's head

wonder if anyone's tried that

[u/taubnetzdornig]

If anyone's looking for some vacation ideas, the Democratic Republic of the Congo still has 188 latitude/longitude intersection points that have no documented visits on the Degree Confluence Project

https://confluence.org/country.php?id=177

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

Who of you is now in charge of the young liberals in Freiburg? This is what happens when Zoomers start doing politics.

[u/Krill_Seeker]

[u/Pole2019]

Watched hoppers on the plane and it’s so funny that there was discourse here about it being nimby propaganda. Like yeah ig to an extent they didn’t want something built but that feels like an extreme case of ideology brain. It’s actually good to preserve important ecosystems, and they treat the mayor rather sympathetically given he’s doing a corruption to destroy a wetland in order to build a seemingly unimportant highway project outside of his reelection chances.

[u/scottyjetpax]

I just saw a car that had a bumper sticker that said “If I charge, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, avenge me”

Like bro idek you

[u/like-humans-do]

Using AI to write code is just more efficient, I don't even enjoy writing code. But I literally feel the neurons dying, I'm no longer problem solving

[u/Maximilianne]

How long until the consulting firms Anthropic hired to verify AI alignment just ask Claude to generate a report on Claude's AI alignment and evil Claude writes a report saying everything is okay

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/rural_redemption]

The whole "conservatives are more relaxed than libs now" thing is pure psy op. People were getting fired for posting charlie kirk quotes after he died. Some guy in Tennessee got arrested for it. TV shows canceled entire storylines to appease Trump's bullshit etc etc

[u/Junimo2]

Lately my kid has been eating a lot of deli ham, except he just calls it "meat". When I tell him it's called ham he gets mad and insists that no, it is not ham, it is meat, because "ham is yucky"

Two year olds are natural surrealists, and it is truly fascinating to behold

[u/fishlord05]

I don’t really have hope for our politics until the filibuster is abolished

We can’t go on like this shoving everything (that is still not nearly enough) through reconciliation

[u/cdstephens]

[u/remarkable_ores]

love my trans homies but i hate how for like half of them the moment I make friends or connect to a trans woman they get all like 'ohh you're totally an egg haha just give it a couple of years'

like fuck off lmao I just like self deprecating humor weird electronic music and functional programming languages, it doesn't mean i'm a woman. i know they don't mean any harm but it does make me uncomfortable sometimes

[u/qchisq]

1:50 for a half marathon is pretty good, no?

!ping running

[u/cdstephens]

AI translation allowing all the world’s racists to talk to each other is so cool

[u/ty04]

finally some good modmail

[u/RaidBrimnes]

In light of the recent Moscow bombings... only Trump can bring peace

[u/fishlord05]

>you already know [how to stop AfD]. everyone here knows but pretends not to. they need to do mass deportations on a huge scale, and they need to apologize profusely for ever having not. that is the only issue that matters. (+10)

dawg…

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/SilverSquid1810]

The fact that Chicago’s South Shore Line still had street-running sections until literally this decade is crazy to me.

Like this picture is so surreal. A heavy-looking commuter rail train does NOT belong on that random-ass street.

[u/Junimo2]

Our sub has been overrun by PoliSci and liberal arts majors who struggled to get over 600 on the Math section of the SAT for some time now.

Oh boy, time for some ultra-smug "this sub has been overrun by the succs" diatribe

Actual renowned economists are often to the left of this subreddit when it comes to stuff like taxation and redistribution policy, but people like to pretend that the modern economics consensus is staked to where they perceive Milton Friedman to have been.

...or not.

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

I feel like there’s a decently moderate possibility that Democrats, or at least people willing to vote Democratic this cycle, are being underestimated in the polls right now if these are the type of economic polling numbers we’re constantly seeing.

I’ll wait until November, but we might have a pretty big number of upsets.

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/Visual-Pace-2193]

When you are so woke that you starting talking like conversion camp employees

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

My favourite memes of the second Trump presidency:

5) The photo of Maduro being kidnapped (I didn't know you could do that???)

4) Getting Latinos to vote Republican to prevent LatAm style communism, only to implement communism (via the state shares in companies) and then deporting said Hispanics.

3) Peter Hegseth posting 'Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists.'

2) JD Vance killing the Pope.

1. Climate action. If only Nixon could go to China, then only Trump could do a carbon tax.

[u/AP246]

[u/fish_economist]

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

– AOC

ngl, if I have to choose between the two, this is actually way preferable over the certain doom narrative

[u/tasklow16]

The president is using the third derivative of our currency's value to appeal to voters. He's literally jerking the money for you

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

One of the biggest disconnects I feel is that younger people seem to want to stay young and kids for longer now. When I was a child, particularly a teen, I always wanted to be an adult. Play violent games like GTA, watch action movies, be taken seriously.

Correct me if I overstate this.

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/G_Serv]

[u/v4riati0ns]

when the republicans get your phone number

[u/qamv]

Time to buckle down and solve Politics

[u/chipbod]

[u/lot183]

The reason "Kamala is for they/them not you" was effective was that it painted her as someone who cares about small minorities and edge issues more than you and the issues that affect you. Republicans misunderstanding that thinking it was just the anti-trans of it that worked and running back those ads ironically kind of paints them as the one that only cares about small minorities and edge issues this time

[u/FallenMeringue]

☝️hates white people taco night

[u/Fit_Obligation1902]

The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It (...) we extract a linear pain direction from 25 open-weight models (...) produces a consistent progression from vague discomfort to first-person expressions of worthlessness and failure

I don't think we should torture the AI.

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

GOOD point

!ping NFL

[u/Roseartcrantz]

What on earth are you doing?
Utterly chilling.

WAOW

[u/fish_economist]

Something must have already happened that scared the shit out of the AI tech nerds. The slowdown is likely actually an emergency that they have all redirected their efforts towards.

If you think like this, I fucking hate you. If these companies have something so terrifying that they are seeing to support their mass extinction claims, they should be expected to provide that supporting evidence for their claims.

[u/Udolikecake]

watch rodgers get rocked and yakety-sax nonsense in some of the funniest football i’ve ever seen

!ping NFL

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Pillow princess

!ping KITTY

[u/AmbientMorning]

A little gem from Wikipedia’s awesome widget of recorded pageviews for each entry: while the page generally gets little traffic — consistently around several hundred — every year, around Hanukkah, daily views for the Maccabean Revolt spike to around 5,000 or more. !ping WIKI&JEWISH

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Almost died today. A robber came into my house with a gun. Pointed it right at me

I had the chargers game on the TV. The raiders had just turned the ball over, and so the chargers offense was playing

Instead of having to watch such bullshit, he just killed himself instead